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seats, rests, or stools, as may be necessary, and shall not make any rules, regulations, or orders preventing the use of such stools or seats when any such female employees are not actively employed in their work in such business or employment.

SEC. 2. If any employer of female help in the District of Columbia, Penalty. shall neglect or refuse to provide seats, as provided in this act, or shall make any rules, orders, or regulations in his shop, store, or other place of business, requiring females to remain standing when not necessarily employed in service or labor therein, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be liable to a fine therefor in a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars, with costs, in the discretion of the court.

ACTS OF 1897–98.

CHAPTER 8.-Factories and workshops-Water-closets.

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where persons Water closets

SECTION 9. Every building in said District are employed or intended to be employed in any trade or business, to be provided. shall be provided with sufficient and suitable privy accommodations, having regard to the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such building; and also where persons of both sexes are employed or intended to be employed, or in attendance, with sufficient, suitable, and separate privy accommodations for persons of each sex. It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent to put any person or persons in possession of any building, or any part thereof, not provided with privy accommodations as aforesaid, except a watchman for the purpose of guarding such building or part thereof.

CHAPTER 467.-Examination and licensing of plumbers.

aminers.

SECTION 1. The commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby Board of exauthorized to appoint a plumbing board to be composed of two master plumbers, one journeyman plumber competent to be licensed as master plumber, and two employees of the District of Columbia having a knowledge of plumbing and gas fitting and sanitary work, whose compensation shall be three hundred dollars per annum each, payable monthly. A majority of the board shall be deemed competent for

action.

SEC. 2. In addition to such advisory duties as said commissioners Duties. shall assign them, it shall be the duty of said plumbing board to examine all applicants for license as master plumbers or gas fitters, and to report to said commissioners, who, if satisfied from such report that the applicant is a fit person to engage in the business of plumbing or gas fitting, shall issue a license to such person to engage in such business.

SEC. 3. Applicants for licenses as master plumbers or gas fitters must Applicants. be twenty-one years of age, must make application in their own handwriting, and must accompany such application with a certificate as to good character, signed by at least three reputable citizens of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 4. The fee for a license as master plumber or gas fitter shall be three dollars.

Fee.

quired.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the work of License replumbing or gas fitting in the District of Columbia unless he is licensed as provided in this act, or is an employee of a licensed master plumber. SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for the owner or lessee of any building in the District of Columbia, or the agent or representative of such owner or lessee, to knowingly employ an unlicensed person to do plumbing or gas fitting in or about such building.

Employment of unlicensed plumber.

SEC. 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall, Penalty. on conviction thereof in the police court, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and in default of payment of such fine such person shall be confined in the workhouse of the District of Columbia for a period not exceeding six months; and all prosecutions under this act shall be in the police court of said District, in the name of the District of Columbia.

Bonds required.

of action.

ACTS OF 1898-99.

CHAPTER 218.-Security for wages of employees on public works—Contractors' bonds.

SECTION 1. Hereafter any person or persons entering into a formal contract with the District of Columbia for the construction of any public building, or the prosecution and completion of any public work, or for repairs upon any public building or public work, shall be required, before commencing such work, to execute the usual penal bond, with good and sufficient sureties, with the additional obligations that such contractor or contractors shall promptly make payments to all persons supplying him or them labor and materials in the prosecuWho has right tion of the work provided for in such contract; and any person or persons making application therefor and furnishing affidavit to the department under the direction of which said work is being or has been prosecuted that labor or materials for the prosecution of such work has been supplied by him or them, and payment for which has not been made, shall be furnished with a certified copy of said contract and bond, upon which said person or persons supplying such labor and materials shall have a right of action, and shall be authorized to bring suit in the name of the District of Columbia or the United States for his or their use and benefit against said contractor and sureties and to prosecute the same to final judgment and execution: Provided, That such action and its prosecution shall not involve the District of Columbia or the United States in any expense: Provided, That in such case the court in which such action is brought is authorized to require proper security for cost in case judgment is for the defendant.

Provisos.

taxed.

ACTS OF 1901-2.

CHAPTER 1352.-License tax for employment offices, etc.

Offices to be SECTION 7, PAR. 42. Proprietors or owners of intelligence offices, information bureaus, registries, or employment offices, by whatsoever name called, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars per annum.

Shipping mas

ters.

Duties.

Regulations to be prescribed.

Penalty.

FLORIDA.

REVISED STATUTES OF 1891.

PART 1.—TITLE 11.-Seamen-Shipping masters.

SECTION 933. There shall be created in and for the several ports of this State one or more shipping masters, to be appointed by the mayor with the consent of the common council of each city or incorporated town in this State, whose business it shall be to provide and ship crews for vessels and seamen, in accordance with the laws of the United States, whenever required to do so by proper authority representing the vessels or owners.

SEC. 935. The mayor and council may grant license in conformity to this act, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, and such ordinances and orders as in their judgment may be most conducive to the interests of their port, and for the government of the shipping and for the welfare and protection of the marine and seamen, subject to the laws of the United States, and for the direction and government of said shipping masters as they may deem proper; and the same at any time may amend or revoke, and may impose fines for the violation of such rules, ordinances, orders and regulations, provided such fines so imposed by city or town authority under this chapter shall not exceed $50 for each offense in violating said rules, orders, regulations or ordinances.

PART 4.—TITLE 1.-Exemption of wages from attachment. SECTION 2008. No writ of attachment or garnishment or other prohead of family cess shall issue from any of the courts of this State to attach or delay the payment of any money or other thing due to any person who is

Earnings

exempt.

of

the head of a family residing in this State, when the money or other thing is due for the personal labor or services of such person.

Action in cases

SEC. 2009. Whenever any money or other thing due for labor or services, as aforesaid, is attached by such process, the person to whom of attachment. the same is due and owing may make oath before the officer who issued the process that the money attached is due for the personal labor and services of such person, and that he or she is the head of a family residing in this State. When such an affidavit is made, notice of the same shall be forthwith given to the party or his attorney who sued out the process, and if the facts set forth in such affidavit are not denied under oath, within two days after the service of said notice, the process shall be returned, and all proceedings under the same shall cease. If the facts stated in the affidavit are denied by the party who sued out the process within the time above set forth and under oath, then the matter shall be tried by the court from which the writ or process issued, in like manner as claims to property levied upon by writ of execution are tried, and the money or thing attached shall remain subject to the process until release by the judgment of the court which shall try the issue.

PART 4.—TITLE 2.—Earnings of married women.

SECTION 2075. A married woman's wages and earnings acquired by her in any employment separate from her husband shall be her separate property and subject to her own disposal, as though she were a single woman.

PART 4.-TITLE 2.-Hours of labor.

Earnings separate property.

SECTION 2117. Ten hours of labor shall be a legal day's work, and Ten hours a whenever any person employed to perform manual labor of any kind day's work. by the day, week, month or year renders so many hours of labor, he shall be considered as having performed a legal day's work, unless a written contract has been signed by the person so employed and the employer, requiring a less or greater number of hours of labor to be performed daily.

SEC. 2118. Unless such written contract has been made, the person employed shall be entitled to extra pay for all work performed by the requirement of his employer in excess of ten hours' labor daily.

PART 5.-TITLE 2.-Enticing employees.

Extra pay.

Enticing em

SECTION 2405. Whoever shall entice or persuade by any means whatsoever any tenant, servant or laborer, under contract with another, ployees. whether written or verbal, to violate such contract, or shall employ any servant or laborer, knowing him or her to be under contract as aforesaid, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding sixty Penalty. days, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

PART 5.-TITLE 2.—Sunday labor.

SECTION 2638. Whoever follows any pursuit, business or trade on Sunday, either by manual labor or with animal or mechanical power, except the same be work of necessity, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

SEC. 2639. Whoever keeps open store or disposes of any wares, merchandise, goods or chattels on Sunday, or sells or barters the same, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. In cases of emergency or necessity, however, merchants, shop keepers, and others may dispose of the comforts and necessaries of life to customers, without keeping open doors.

Sunday labor forbidden.

Trading.

Exception.

Employing

SEC. 2640. Whoever employs his apprentice or servant in labor or other business on Sunday, except it be in the ordinary household busi- servants. ness of daily necessity, or other work of necessity or charity, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars for every such offense.

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PART 5.-TITLE 2.-Intoxication of railroad employees.

SECTION. 2693. If any person while in charge of a locomotive engine, or acting as the conductor or superintendent of a car or train, or on the car or train as a brakeman, or employed to attend the switches, drawbridges or signal stations on any railway, or acting as captain or pilot on any steamboat shall be intoxicated, he shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

PART 5.-TITLE 2.-Employment of children.

SECTION 2733. Whoever hires or employs or causes to be hired or employed any minor, knowing such minor to be under the age of fifteen years and under the legal control of another, without the consent of those having such legal control, for more than sixty days, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days or by fine not exceeding twenty dollars.

PART 5.-TITLE 2.-Seamen-Shipping masters, etc.

SECTION 2751. No one engaged in the business of shipping sailors, sels without con- nor any keeper of any sailor boarding house, nor any one in the employ of the keeper of a sailor boarding house, or acting in any manner in behalf of the keeper of a sailor boarding house, shall go on board of any vessel, in any port or harbor in this State, without first having obtained from the master of such vessel permission to go on board of his vessel. If any one engaged in the business of shipping sailors, or the keeper of any sailor boarding house, or any one in the employ of or acting in behalf of the keeper of a sailor boarding house, shall go on board of any vessel outside the jurisdiction of this State, he shall not remain on board of such vessel after she has entered any port or harbor of this State without first having obtained the express consent of the master of such vessel. Whoever willfully violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Penalty.

Negligence of

APPENDIX.

CHAPTER 4071.-Liability of railroad companies for injuries to employees. (Page 1008. Act approved May 4, 1891.)

SECTION 3. If any person is injured by a railroad company by the fellow-servants. running of the locomotives, or cars, or other machinery of such company, he being at the time of such injury an employee of the company, and the damage was caused by negligence of another employee, and without fault or negligence on the part of the person injured, his emre- ployment by the company shall be no bar to a recovery. No contract stricting liabil- which restricts such liability shall be legal or binding.

Contracts

ity.

[The following annotation relates to chapter 3744, Acts of 1887, repealed by the above chapter, but is regarded as applicable to the present law:]

Under this provision of the statute an employee of a railroad company can not recover damages from such company for injuries sustained by him on account of the negligence or carelessness of another employee unless wholly without fault himself, even though in performing the act that resulted in the injury he was acting under the orders of a superior. 34 Fla. 85.

ACTS OF 1893.

CHAPTER 4144.-Conspiracy against workingmen.

Preventing em- SECTION 1. If two or more persons shall agree, conspire, combine, or ployment, etc. confederate together for the purpose of preventing any person or persons from procuring work in any firm or corporation, or to cause the discharge of any person or persons from work in such firm or corporation, or if any person or persons shall verbally or by a written or printed

communication, threaten any injury to the life, property or business
of any person, for the purpose of procuring the discharge of any work-
man in any firm or corporation, or to prevent any person or persons
from procuring work in such firm or corporation, such person or
persons so combining shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred Penalty.
dollars each, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year.

CHAPTER 4199.-Hours of labor-Railroad employees.

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlaw- Limit of thirful for any railroad doing business in this State to require or permit its teen hours. employees, who are engaged in the business of operating its trains over its roads, to make runs of over thirteen hours, or make runs aggregating more than thirteen hours in any twenty-four hours, except when such train is detained by reason of casualty, or other cause, from reaching its destination on schedule time, and no conductors and engineers, after having been on a run or runs for as much as thirteen hours, out of every twenty-four hours, shall be required to again go on duty until after eight hours' rest, except in the case above stated. No employee of any railroad company shall be deprived of his right to rest. recover damages for personal injury by reason of the fact that he, at the time of such injury, was making a run of more than thirteen hours, or making a run aggregating more than thirteen hours in twenty-four hours, or had gone on duty after a thirteen hours' run, or runs aggregating thirteen hours before eight hours' rest.

Eight hours'

SEC. 2. Any railroad violating any of the provisions of section 1 of Penalty. this act, shall be subject to a forfeiture of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars; all forfeitures collected under the provisions of this act, shall be paid into the State treasury to the credit of the school fund.

SEC. 3. Suits for the collection of forfeitures under the provisions of Action may be this act, shall be brought in the county in which the principal office brought, where. of the railroad employing trainmen offending is situated, or if such company shall have no principal office in this State, then such suit may be brought in any county in which such company has a track and an agent.

CHAPTER 4207.-Blacklisting, etc

Act construed.

SECTION 1. If any railroad company or other corporation doing busi- Blacklisting. ness in this State, or any person, agent or employer of any such company or corporation after having discharged any employee from the service of any such company or corporation, shall attempt to prevent by word or writing, sign or other means, directly or indirectly, such discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person, company or corporation, such person, agent, employer, company or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, Penalty. shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or less than one hundred dollars, and such person, agent, employer, company or corporation shall be liable in damages to such discharged person, to be recovered by civil action; but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person, agent, employer, company or corporation from giving in writing to any other person, company or corporation to whom such discharged person has applied for employment, a truthful statement of the reasons for such discharge; and shall furnish to such discharged employee on his application, to such address as may be given by such discharged employee, within ten days after such application made as aforesaid, a true copy of any such written statement. SEC. 2. If any railroad company or other corporation doing business Liability in this State, shall authorize or permit, with its knowledge and consent, any of its officers, agents, employers or employees to commit either or any of the acts prohibited by this act (except as herein provided), such railroad company or corporation shall be liable in damages to such employee so prevented from obtaining employment, to be recovered by him in a civil action.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of any person, officer, agent, employer, company or corporation aforesaid, after having discharged any employee from the service of any such company or corporation, upon

damages.

for

of

Statement cause of discharge.

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